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The mix-up "sounds more like a storyline from one of the 1980’s Police Academy comedies than what should be expected in a high-profile prosecution,” Biden's attorney wrote.

Federal prosecutors mistakenly claimed in a court filing that a photo of sawdust they found while searching Hunter Biden's electronics was cocaine, attorneys for the president's son said Tuesday.

The sawdust picture was used in a court filing detailing incriminating information that prosecutors said they turned up while executing a search warrant of Biden's laptop and electronics, but his legal team said in court papers that the picture was sent to their client by his then-psychiatrist as inspiration.

The picture shows three lines of yellow dust on a piece of wood near some other dust. The psychiatrist sent the picture to Biden in 2018, saying it was "lines of sawdust sent to me by a master carpenter who was a coke addict.”

Biden's attorneys said the message and picture were "meant to convey that Mr. Biden, too, could overcome any addiction" and used the apparent mix-up to mock prosecutors.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

ACAB -- Especially Feds.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This while amusing is a scary look at the current FBI and Federal LE's ability to pursue groundless action.

Hunter Biden and editorialising Joe Biden's mental state, the highly ambiguous statement on Hillary Clinton's emails - all under the roof of a Dem Executive.

Not to mention the shitty work done by Mueller - what a god damn hack job that was

Dems need to get it in their heads that LE needs a good wash through and needs a clean up. Having a "middle ground" DOJ and heads of LE is just going to get them and the country in deep shit and it will be too late.

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[–] [email protected] 98 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (14 children)

The picture from the article.

Yes, that’s a table saw in the mirror. (Edit: or is that a picture frame? Whatever the picture has a table saw.)

[–] [email protected] 53 points 8 months ago (7 children)

Do those prosecutors think cocaine is light brown?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago

Considering the anti-drug propaganda they send to schools? Quite possibly.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Maybe by the time they get some it is

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

To be fair, the warm lighting in the pic isn't doing it any favors.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

This is true, but the "powder" is the exact color and consistency of if the sawdust under the saw.

Did they think Hunter set up 3 lines of very chunky, brown cocaine up on a table saw, then just dumped fucking kilos more on the saw and floor for funsies?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It could be tainted, I suppose

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (4 children)

In all my partying I've never once snorted brown coke.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

To get back to the warning that I’ve received, you might take it with however many grains of salt you wish, that the brown acid that is circulating around us is not specifically too good. It’s suggested that you do stay away from that. Of course it’s your own trip, so be my guest. But be advised that there is a warning on that, okay?

https://genriskadvisors.com/2019/08/12/stay-away-from-the-brown-acid/

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Better send the SWAT to everyone who has any picture of any dusty substance. After all it might just be tainted cocaine!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

one of my earliest clients working contract security, ran a paid parking lot. this was ages ago, i was the onsite guard for it, one of my things was walking the lots making sure everyone was paid.

There was this idiot in a Jag. parked. started walking off to the strip club next door. I see him walk by me and I warn him. he gets Entitled-Rich-Dude (with a side of Horny-College-Kid. ProTip. Minivans are better for sex in the car. more room. better seating... better suspension.) he stalks off without paying so I slap a stupid "you owe us" ticket- its not even a city ticket... and we're not going to send it to collection (the lawyers fee costs more than it's worth.)

Anyhow, he had this proximity alarm thing that sounds off if you get too close. "warning this car has a proximity alarm! it will sound in..."... well, I ignore it, slap the ticket on and go about my job. Turns out the ticket on the windshield is enough to set off the proximity alarm. It was sounding for a couple hours.

his battery drains because the alarm is constantly going off. When he comes out, the thing won't start. he sees the ticket and calls the cops.

Says I vandalized my his Jag. I see the cops doing their bored questioning thing, so I walk out and basically make sure they see me. One comes over to ask what's up. So I explained all that. "all i did was put the ticket on. His proximity alarm must have tripped." "Proximity Alarm?" the cop asks. "yeah. You know those things from the 90's that are like 'step away from the vehicle.." "So... those are illegal." (because noise nuisance.) He looked rather happy at that. And up the hill, you could hear this guy making demands of the partner to arrest me. the cop is trying to be "nice" because Entitled Rich Fucks are annoying. The cops basically told him to call for a jump, but ERG "knows PeOpLe"

Any how, after a moment, I say to the cop that had been talking with me, who absolutely doesn't want to bail his partner out "So, I couldn't help but notice, there's a baggie sack covered in suspicious white powder on front passenger seat."

My cop walks up and looks in the window. They ask him to open the car. ("There's a baggie with a suspicious white powder. We have probable cause...")

So the other cop sees this, raises an eyebrow. when he figures out what's going on... the guy gets a rather evil gleam in his eye.

They start that process over hostess powdered donuts. just to piss the rich fuck off. Ended up citing him for the proximity alarm and left it at that, but not before they searched his car.

(who the fuck drives a jag and then has powdered sugar donuts in it? Ew. that shit gets everywhere.)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (10 children)

Hmm...

ACAB but so are rich entitled fucks.

Not sure who to root for here.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 8 months ago (1 children)

"this close, they always look like landscapes; but nope, you're lookin' at balls."

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

It's wild that they went with Police Academy instead of Arrested Development.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 8 months ago

“Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, this is a photo of the accused butt crack. This definitely proves that he is addicted to crack cocaine.”

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